Dear all, The Moral Sciences Club's next meeting will be held on Tuesday 31st January. We are delighted to welcome our very own Dr Henry Taylor, who will be giving a talk entitled "The nature of properties: Pure powers or powerful qualities?". Here is the abstract:
Some have claimed that properties are pure powers: that their dispositional nature exhausts their entire nature. Others have claimed that properties are ‘categorical’ or ‘qualitative', as opposed to powerful or dispositional. Yet others have claimed that properties are both powerful and categorical/qualitative: this is the powerful qualities view. In this paper, I examine the debate between the pure powers view and the powerful qualities view. I argue that the debate rests upon an illusion because each view (properly articulated) is indiscernible from the other. As a result, I argue that the powerful qualities position is subject to the same objections as the pure powers view and vice versa. I then sketch an alternative view of properties, and argue that it can avoid these problems. The meeting will be held at 2:30 until 4:15, in the Barbara White Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. For those who have not yet paid, there is a yearly membership fee of £7.50 for students and £15 for others, or a one-off fee of £3 (£2 for students). These can be purchased online at: http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=75&prodvarid=87 -- Matt Dougherty, James Hutton, and Li Li Tan Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
